Memory leak in Binutils - CVE-2022-47007

 

Memory leak in Binutils - CVE-2022-47007

Published: December 5, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU83859
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-47007
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the stab_demangle_v3_arg() function in stabs.c. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


Affected software

Binutils
Voice Gateway
Ubuntu
binutils (Ubuntu package)
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package)
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Platform Automation Toolkit
IBM Sterling Order Management

How to mitigate CVE-2022-47007

Install updates from vendor's website.

Binutils - update to 2.39
Voice Gateway - update to 1.0.8.12
binutils (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.34-6ubuntu1.8, 2.38-4ubuntu2.5
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.34-6ubuntu1.8, 2.38-4ubuntu2.5
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 2.10.65
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 3.0.19, 4.0.11
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 3.0.19, 4.0.11
Platform Automation Toolkit - addressed in versions 4.0.13, 4.1.13, 4.2.8, 4.3.5
IBM Sterling Order Management - update to 10.0.2403.1

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